Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf This is the perfect mutualism

This is the perfect mutualism made visible: the columbine evolved its long red spur specifically for the long bill of the hummingbird

A Robin in full song on an apple blossom branch — the orange-red breast vivid against the white and pink of the flowers

the wings spread in the full soaring posture

the way the fur compresses differently at the joints

while the atmospheric blue-green background gives the whole composition a jewel-like intensity

Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf This is the perfect mutualismA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue